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Industry Moves: NebuAd’s Dykes Out As CEO, Joins Verifone As CFO

http://www.nebuad.com/, its business model in shambles following Congressional scrutiny of its deals with ISP broadband providers like Charter Communications (NSDQ: CHTR), has lost its CEO, Bob Dykes, to payment services company VeriFone. Dykes begins the new job effective immediately. Since Dykes was at the helm of NebuAd, San Jose, CA.-based VeriFone’s release can easily skip over his tenure there and focus on his two-year stint as EVP, Business Operations and CFO of Juniper Networks and prior executive roles at Flextronics International and Symantec.

— GigaOm: Since cable companies have been running away from NebuAd this summer when the Congressional hearings began, the company says it plans to pursure “more conventional media channels and means.” In the meantime, NebuAd